PHOTO: A German Shepherd is doing fine after Canton fire crews pulled him out of a cistern under a Canton home. The Canton Fire Department was called about 9 p.m. Monday to the city’s northwest side where the dog somehow got into the cistern some 20 feet into the ground. A cistern is a tank for storing water. This one is under a wooden deck that had to be dismantled for rescue crews to get to the opening. The fire department said on its Facebook page said that an extension ladder, ropes and a harness were used to lower a firefighter to the bottom of the cistern. A dog harness borrowed from the Canton Police K9 lifted the German Shepherd from the hole. The entire rescue took about an hour, according to the fire department. The dog suffered only minor scrapes and cuts to his paws and a cut above his eye, the fire department said.